"To prove this, the doctor carried out an experiment at Charing
Cross Hospital. At his request a number of patients suffering
from heart and kidney diseases wrote the Lord's Prayer in their
ordinary handwriting. The different manuscripts were then taken
and examined microscopically. By throwing them, highly magnified,
on a screen, the jerks or involuntary motions due to the
patient's peculiar pulsations were distinctly visible. The
handwriting of persons in normal health, says Dr. Johnson, does
not always show their pulse beats. What one can say, however, is
that when a document, purporting to be written by a certain
person, contains traces of pulse beats and the normal handwriting
of that person does not show them, then clearly that document is
a forgery.
"Now, in these two specimens of handwriting which we have
enlarged it is plain that the writers of both of them suffered
from a certain peculiar disease of the heart. Moreover, I am
prepared to show that the pulse beats exhibited in the case of
certain pen-strokes in one of these documents are exhibited in
similar strokes in the other. Furthermore, I have ascertained
from his family physician, whose affidavit I have here, that Mr.
Bisbee did not suffer from this or any other form of heart
disease. Mr. Caswell-Jones, in addition to wiring me that he
refused to write Bridget Fallon a recommendation after the
typhoid broke out in his country house, also says he does not
suffer from heart disease in any form.
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